Thomas Flierl

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Thomas Flierl, 2015

Thomas Flierl (born July 3, 1957 in Berlin ) is a German politician ( Die Linke ). From 2002 to 2006 he was Berlin Senator for Science, Research and Culture. From 1995 to 1998 and again from 2002 to 2011 he was a member of the Berlin House of Representatives .

Career

Thomas Flierl is the son of the GDR architectural historian Bruno Flierl . His mother died in childbirth, so that he grew up in Pankow with his grandmother and father.

Flierl joined the SED in 1976 . After studying philosophy at the Aesthetics / Art Studies section at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1976 to 1981, he became a research assistant at this university.In 1985 he had to break off this activity due to public criticism of the demolition of the listed gasometer in Prenzlauer Berg . In the same year he received his doctorate as Dr. phil. in the Aesthetics Department at the Humboldt University with the thesis "Aesthetics of Appropriation - Study of the ideological-methodological basic problems of Marxist-Leninist aesthetics". As a result, Flierl was a protagonist of the SED reform discourse. From 1987 to 1990 he worked in the GDR Ministry of Culture , Regional Committee on Culture Berlin, from 1990 to 1996 head of the Prenzlauer Berg cultural office, 1995 to 1998 member of the Berlin House of Representatives for the PDS faction , then district councilor for ecological urban development in Berlin's Mitte district . Since 1998 he has been a member of the PDS again (since 2007 Die Linke ), after he had declared his resignation in 1991.

On January 17th, 2002 Flierl was elected Berlin Senator for Science, Research and Culture. Flierl was elected to the Berlin House of Representatives by direct mandate in 2001 and 2006. After the election on September 17, 2006 , the governing mayor Klaus Wowereit no longer took him into account when appointing the senators . Since then, the governing mayor has headed the cultural department in personal union .

In the “Science Minister Ranking” of the magazine of the German University Association “Research and Teaching” from December 15, 2004 to February 15, 2005, the Senator at the time shared 16th and last place with the Saarland Science Minister Jürgen Schreier ( CDU ). On a scale from 1 to 6, both received a mark of 4.7. Anyone interested in science policy could take part in this evaluation of the achievements of the Federal Minister for Education and Research and the respective State Ministers of Science. Around 8,000 university professors and members of the university took part. In the more recent 2005/2006 ranking, he came in 13th place with a grade of 4.5, and two ministers were rated worse in terms of their performance.

Stasi scandal

Flierl's behavior caused a sensation during a panel discussion on the future of the Hohenschönhausen Memorial in March 2006 when, in his role as Senator for Culture and Chairman of the Foundation Council of the Memorial, he abused and ridiculed victims of the Stasi as "criminals" and "subversive elements" by 200 former Stasi employees left unanswered. Massive demands for resignation were loud against Flierl. At this event, according to the CDU, Flierl called on Stasi victims to “ prove the SED terrorism”. FDP parliamentary group leader Martin Lindner said that Flierl should have contradicted the “torturers”. "If you take over the nonsense of the torturers, then you mean to them," said Lindner. The leader of the Greens , Sibyll Klotz , urged Flierl to resign from the chairmanship of the Hohenschönhausen memorial board of trustees and accused him of differentiating as long as "that there is no longer anything left of terror, torture and human rights violations." The Green Youth Berlin condemned "the mockery of the victims of the socialist tyranny" and declared: "Such an attempt at distorting history is unworthy of a Berlin senator". The CDU spoke of the "preliminary climax of a bad campaign against the memory of the SED dictatorship and its victims". Flierl explained: "Of course the contemporary witnesses, you as an employee can only be part of the perspective."

Return of the "Berlin Street Scene" by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

In August 2006, Thomas Flierl announced that the State of Berlin would return Ernst-Ludwig Kirchner's painting Berliner Straßenszene from 1913, which is considered one of the most important paintings of German Expressionism , to the heirs of the Jewish art collector Alfred Hess, who lived in the USA . This decision was controversial because it was unclear whether the picture had even been sold in 1936 under pressure from the National Socialists .

After the return, the painting was finally sold on November 8, 2006 at Christie's in New York for almost 30 million euros to the cosmetics heir Ronald Lauder . It will in future be on view in Lauder's New York New Gallery for German and Austrian Art of the Early 20th Century.

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  1. ↑ Marina Achenbach: Suddenly he's there . Friday 04/2002 of January 18, 2002, p. 4
  2. ^ The SED reform discourse of the eighties p. 4 (PDF; 592 kB) Final report on the DFG project CR 93 / 1-1 of the GSFP
  3. ↑ Biography ( Memento of the original dated December 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. the official website of Thomas Flierls @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thomas-flierl.de
  4. ↑ Regina Köhler: University professors refer Flierl to last place . Die Welt from March 1, 2005, Berlin part, pp. 35–50
  5. ^ Lars-Broder Kreil: Infame agitation . Die Welt from April 4, 2006, p. 4
    Edith Siepmann: Stasi debate: “Everything is lying, Flierl has to go!” Spiegel-Online, April 5, 2006
  6. ^ Berthold Seewald: Last Bastion. In: welt.de . April 25, 2006, Retrieved October 7, 2018 .
  7. ↑ CDU criticizes "Stasi campaign against victims" ; Die Welt, March 18, 2006
  8. ↑ Gilbert Schomaker: Flierl admits errors in the Stasi scandal . Die Welt from March 21, 2006, p. 35
personal data
SURNAME Flierl, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician (Die Linke), Berlin Senator, MdA
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd July 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin